It’s the eighth and final night of the Extrava-Hanukkah giveaways!
I hope you’ve had as much fun as we have with all the mayhem and merriment. It’s just delightful for me to celebrate all of you and to party for eight straight days.
The eighth night of Hanukkah is pretty special for me, too. We can probably heat the whole house with the warmth from all the candles, and we can definitely make s’mores. It’s bright and warm and beautiful while the  are lit, too.
On to the giveaway! I know you like the handbag giveaways – I try to pick patterns that go with everything and shapes that are both useful but not too overwhelming. And I have one more bag in the strangely-shaped prize closet!
Today’s giveaway is:
A Kate Spade Blake Avenue Margareta tote in Diamond Dot!
This bag is 11.3″ high, 15.6″ wide, and 6.2″ deep (27.9cm x 39.5cm x 15.24cm), and the handle drop is nearly 10 inches (25cm). You’ll definitely be able to put it over your shoulder.
It’s an open tote with a recessed zipper closure, and it has two inside slide pockets and a zipper pocket as well. You can carry just about everything you need in this bag.
And, since you’ll need to get some new books and possibly other treats for yourself, we’re adding a $25 gift certificate to Amazon as well! Woo hoo!
Ready to enter? All you need to do is tell us about a book you really want to read next year. Maybe it’s a title or a series you’re anticipating, or maybe it’s a book that hasn’t been written yet but you still want to find it? What book are you looking forward to, real or imagines?Â
Standard disclaimers apply: I’m not being compensated for this giveaway. Void where prohibited. Must be 18 years of age. It’s totally okay to mix patterns while carrying this tote. Honestly, wear whatever you want. You’re going to look fabulous either way! Open to international residents where permitted by applicable law. Comments will close at or near 12pm ET on Sunday 1 January 2017 and winners will be announced shortly afterward.
Happy Hanukkah everyone! Thank you for being part of the Smart Bitches community!
Update: Our final winner of our Extrava-Hanukkah giveaway is Jill L.! Big thank you to all the comments and to every one of you who make the community so awesome! Here’s to great things in 2017!
There’s a new book coming in Feb. by Anne Bishop. It the next in the “Others” series. I already have it on pre-order
I am looking forward with a great deal of anticipation to The Dead Shall Rise, vol 2 in the Fury Triad by Patricia Burroughs who is a BRIILIANT writer.
I am also looking forward to a book I already pre-ordered, very strange for me, Debris & Detritus: The Lesser Greek Gods Running Amok edited by Patricia Burroughs with stories by: Max Adams, Toni McGee Causey, Rhonda Eudaly, Mark Finn, Claire M. Johnson, Jeanne Lyet Gassman, Michelle Muenzler, Robin D. Owens, Irene Radford
New Lauren Blakely’s! She cannot crank out books fast enough- I love her!
It’s gotta be Silver Silence by Nalini Singh. I’ve been intrigued by Silver Mercant from her first appearance. I’m very impatiently waiting……
Does it have to be just one?! LOL I’m looking forward to Nalini Singh’s next Guild Hunter book, as well as John Wiltshire’s 9th book in the More Heat than the Sun series. Oh, and of course Echoes in Death by JD Robb.
Patricia Briggs’Silence Fallen and Kim Harrison’s The Turn
I am waiting for a New book in the “Shadow” series from Christine Feehan which will be the second book in the series. So excited! Plus, there are many others that will be coming out that is too long to list. I am hoping for more exciting books to read in 2017. 🙂
The list is long! But if I must choose ONE, it would be the final book of Elizabeth Hoyt’s Maiden Lane series (WHY must it end???), The Duke of Desire.
Happy Hanukkah and Happy New Year!
I’m eagerly awaiting White Hot by Ilona Andrews. I understand the reasoning behind relaunching the series from the beginning, but those extra 3 months to wait will be difficult!
Anything Ilona Andrews!
A new Cecilia Grant book. Whishful thinking?
I want to start my yer with Adam Silvera’s History Is All You Left Me and end it with Alysia Constantine’s Olympia Knife. That would bookend 2017 quite nicely.
Etched in Bone by Anne Bishop, I love this series. Plus Ilona Andrews, Patricia Briggs, Nalini Singh and… well a whole lot more!!!
I’m looking forward to Kristin Higgins new book, plus I discovered the Agatha Raisin TV series, so I’m reading those as well.
I can’t wait for Karen white’s new tradd street novel! I gobbled up the first four this month and am highly anticipating the newest one in the new year!
Happy New Year Everyone! 🙂
I’m looking forward to lots of books but these are the pre-orders I’m mooning over currently:
Devil in Spring – Lisa Kleypas
The Hate U Give- Angie Thomas (I CAN”T WAIT FOR THIS ONE TO HIT)
Assassin’s Fate – Robin Hobb
Pretty Face – Lucy Parker
Devil in Spring, the Kowalski reunion book, and Beverly Jenkins’s new book… please please please
Since reading an essay on this site I’ve really wanted to read Kelly Bowen’s ‘I’ve got my Duke to Keep me Warm’. I was actually going to treat myself with it on New Years Day with my ARE bookbucks. Sigh.
I want to read Carrie Fisher’s new book, will get to it this week.
White Hot by Ilona Andrews.
I’m ready for the sequel to Three Dark Crowns
Co-ed and the Cad by LH Cosway and Penny Reid
I am looking forward to the release in audio of the second and third Bronze Horseman books in March. I wanted to read the first one when it came out in audio, since that is still my primary method, but had heard there was quite a cliff hanger. I also hope this year is finally the year I get around to reading the latest couple of Outlander books, and read the Lymond Chronicles past the first book. I haven’t read the seventh and eighth Outlander books yet because I wanted to make sure book eight didn’t have a cliff hanger like book seven apparently does. As far as Ms. Dunnett is concerned, I loved the first book as much as everyone on the internet said I would, but her writing is so dense I haven’t read the others yet. Probably a bit ambitious, but I can always scale back accordingly.
Another mention for Devil in Spring.
Devil in Spring by Kleypas; Heroine Worship by Sarah Kuhn; Pretty Face, Lucy Parker; Breath of Fire, Bouchet (loved the first one!!), and the new Anne Bishop and Patricia Briggs….!!!
I’d like to expand my knowledge of the romance genre by reading earlier authors–Georgette Heyer and others.
The Devil in Spring and the last Maiden Lane book.
Just started Anne Bishop’s The Others series over this holiday week – looking forward to reading it all the way through!
Looking forward to new books from Eloisa James and Karen Marie Moning.
I really need to catch up on Kresley Cole’s Immortals After Dark series. I am a few books behind, but have a copy of Dark Skye ready to be read (hopefully soon)
A Destiny of Dragons and The Consumption of Magic! Both sequels to The Lightning Struck Heart by TJ Klune comming out in early spring and late fall respectively. I’ve listened to book one on audio at lest ten times (after reading the book at least three). I love love love the narrator. I constantly forget that it’s one voice because all the voices are so distinct.
PS – thank you for having this contest! When I went to double check the name of book number three, I found that there is going to be at least one more book, possibly two, in the series! And the author has a short story in the series free online that I didn’t know about. I’m off to read the short story and try to figure out estimated dates for the other book(s). Cheers!
Off the top of my head, there are 4 books I’m really excited about in 2017:
Breath of Fire by Amanda Bouchet;
A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas;
Kate Daniels #10 by Ilona Andrews; and
Silence Fallen by Patricia Briggs
Hmmm…they’re all fantasy!
I really want to read some mid city sizzled contemporaries. Bigger than quaint small town where everyone knows everyone but now quite huge cities either.
Devil in Spring.
Lisa Kleypas’ Devil in Spring! Devil in Winter is my favorite book of all time and to see a glimpse of Sebastian and Evie again will be a treat. I’ve been really happy with Lisa Kleypas’ return to historicals so I am also excited to see what happens to Pandora
Devil In Spring by Lisa Kleypas
Roxanne gay’s new book (Hunger: a memoir) And the things about love- the new book by Julie James!
I can’t wait for Devil in Spring and I’m so intrigued by the new Mercy Thompson – the cover has me a bit anxious!
I would love to find a perfect romantic novel to read <3 I really love good romantic books!
Can’t wait for the sequel to Silver On The Road (which I think I found through the revs here). And maybe this is the year that the sequel to Jasper Fforde’s Shades of Grey finally comes out!